Bug 147402

Summary:	CAN-2005-0233 homograph spoofing
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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OS:	Linux
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-02-07 21:22:28 UTC

*** This bug has been split off bug 147397 ***

------- Original comment by Josh Bressers (Security Response Team) on 2005.02.07
16:07 -------

The Shmoo Group has discovered a homograph attack in a number of web browsers:
http://www.shmoo.com/idn/

This issue allows an attacker supply a domain name that looks like a common
name, but is an International Domain Name.  This issue would allow various
attacks to steal information from an unsuspecting vitim.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-02-07 21:23:26 UTC

Upstream is tracking this issue here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281381

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-03-01 16:43:52 UTC

Removing embargo.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-03-01 19:02:03 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html